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People who think they’re always right.
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Arrogance and entitlement.
Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.
Mean-spiritedness and the inability to set and respect boundaries.
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View profile →Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
Haven’t done it yet.
It is all there is.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
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